This parameter controls how many bins are used when discretizing predictors.
Used in recipes::step_discretize() and embed::step_discretize_xgb().
num_breaks(range = c(2L, 10L), trans = NULL)A two-element vector holding the defaults for the smallest and largest possible values, respectively. If a transformation is specified, these values should be in the transformed units.
A trans object from the scales package, such as
scales::transform_log10() or scales::transform_reciprocal(). If not provided,
the default is used which matches the units used in range. If no
transformation, NULL.
num_breaks()
#> Number of Cut Points (quantitative)
#> Range: [2, 10]